Adrienne Mackey is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the potential of performance and play. With her company, Swim Pony, she’s led the creation of works including SURVIVE!, a 22,000 square ft choose-your-own-adventure installation examining humanity’s place within the infinite cosmos; LADY M, a feminist reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth; THE GIANT SQUID, a “crypto-zoology-horror-comedy” performed in actual science lecture halls across Philadelphia; and THE BALLAD OF JOE HILL, a play with music created for historic Eastern State Penitentiary and exploring the wrongful execution of the famed IWW labor icon. She’s also the originator of CROSS POLLINATION, a residency program in which 32 artists took part in documented interdisciplinary creative experiments. Most recently she’s focused on works fusing games and theater in projects like TRAILOFF – a mobile app performance created with the PA Environmental Council using GPS to embed original BIPOC-authored stories onto nature trails; THE END – a month-long mixed reality game played via text message to explore player fears about mortality; AQUA MAROONED!, a wildlife card game commissioned by the Alliance for Watershed Education that released 15,000 copies across three states; and WAR OF THE WORLDS, a game/theater hybrid with Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio looking at gentrification as an invasive force. Up next is THE STUPIDEST, SCARIEST TIME – an interactive performance exploring American obsession with productivity.  Mackey is also a classically trained soprano and sings funk music (featured on America’s Got Talent), former chemist, and teaches acting, directing, and devising for the University of Washington’s School of Drama. www.swimpony.org